What a Trip

Good Morning all from Mom and Dad in Virginia -
We are now home.  Mom slept for nearly eight hours and I am at work so we should be adjusting to the 12 hour time change.  Wanted to share a couple of pictures of our wonderful journey to China.  We are grateful to Justin for being with us.

 OK, so I arrived in China three days before Mom and this is the view from my room in Shanghai

 Saturday Morning Breakfast.  We ate breakfast at this shop every day, with and without Justin.  Simple, good food. 

 Beijing Noodles!  Nuf Said?!  Well, maybe not.  This restaurant is famous for their noodles and we were not disappointed.  Perhaps mom's favorite meal.

 Have no idea who the young ladies are, there was a group of three and one took our picture.  What a great experience.

 Another picture on the wall.  The peak in the background, yes we walked from there.

 Cooking class, dumplings, YUM!

 Forbidden City. Boy is this a big place.  We were exhausted from all of the walking but would not have missed it.

Beijing Roast Duck.  No trip to Beijing is complete without enjoying Roast Duck.  This restaurant is considered one of the best, if not the absolute best in all of Beijing for Roast Duck.  Not us saying that, my Chinese colleague told us so. 

We are glad to be home but already miss the experiences.  The time with Justin, the food, the smog, the people, all great experiences. 

The Pumpkin Patch

Photo Friday

This was our playdate today with my sister in law.

Feel free to laugh

So... I broke my phone. Again. Go ahead and laugh. Ha. Ha. It fell out of my pocket while running, I picked it up and immediately dropped it again. Over the next 24 hours it slowly died to the point of not turning on ever again and not responding to my delicate attempts to charge it. Alas. Phones and I wish we were friends, but we have a freakish love/hate relationship. 

And then, last night, Patrick plugged in the charger to our computer and it proceeded to blow up. Sparks and everything. A dark room was suddenly full of light. Woohoo.... So now we have a dead computer (only waiting for the breath of life) and a dead phone for me. Refusing any and every breath of life I try to give it. How stubborn and selfish. 

So. Yeah. And today I gave myself a black eye with makeup. Freaking cool. I will post a picture on Wednesday of my scenario complete with alllll the makeup. It's gonna be sick. Don't throw up. 

Love you!!!!!

Fishing trip with Ethan

Photo Friday

I'm loving having an iPhone because it's so fun to have a camera on me all the time.  Happy photo Friday!

Vida helping Justin with oatmeal chocolate chip muffins.

Been doing freezer meals this week!  This one is a pumpkin soup.

Jaime playing with static at a restaurant last night.

Vida resisting a much needed nap after keeping us up all night with throw up.

Ouch. :/

My first photo bomb

He he he!

Photo Friday!

What?! Patrick and I haven't posted this for forever! Patrick has all our most recent photos on his iPod, so I can't post those, but those of you who were at his birthday party, here is this beauty :)

And here are some I took on my phone. Same day. the first is Makeup class. I'm supposed to be old. The second is right before a performance of Homecoming Spectacular with Nathan Pacheco. I must say, I clean up so well.

Photo Friday

Attempted a piñata this morning with the girls.  It was so messy.  Really second guessing my decision to make instead of buy on this one.

My new venture.

Hey guys!  Soooo... I just started Mary Kay and I'm a new beauty consultant!  I'm really excited about it! and don't laugh at me. Too much. 

One of my first goals is to have $600 in sales in one day.  I chose next Tuesday, the 15th as my $600 day. 

SO...If there is ANYTHING that you need, a lip gloss, mascara, liner, moisturizer...anything! I would love to get it for you. It would really help me towards this HUGE goal!  Also, the first 3 orders of the day will receive 20% off their entire order.

You can check out the line up at www.marykay.com.  You can email me or text me your order. I don't have a website yet.  Email me at marquie.walton@marykay.com cuz it's AWESOME. and helps me keep my emails seperate. 

That being said, you don't have to buy anything. I really don't expect you to as you are family, but if you were going to buy something anyways... :D Or you DO want to buy something, I would LOVE it.

But I love you guys even more. Thanks for being my family. I love you SO MUCH! BLOG MORE! haha... ironic that I'm saying that... But really. I'm terrible at calling lately, and I want to know how you all are doing. That's what our family is for. :)

Love,
Marquie! The baby sis.

My fishing trip with My Dad

This is a 9lb Bonita (tuna). We are having it for dinner tonight. The meat looks like steak, it is that red. Enjoy.

Its a Photo Friday!

Daniel attended his first football game last week. I think he may have been a little overwhelmed by the whole experience, but he loved it! BYU even won.

She loves working with me on whatever I am doing, especially if it is in the garage. I even got the ladder out so she could climb up and watch me put the oil in on the top side.

It may have turned into a show at some point. Popcorn and all! Am I a bad father for letting my kids sit underneath my truck? They loved it and watched very attentively the whole time!

Sometimes you just have to resort to alternative methods...

Photo Friday on Tuesday...

I am either late or early.  I choose early!

 What would a trip to Toronto be without breakfast at Tim Hortons?  Yum, F Concourse before I returned to Virginia.  Oh, did you know that when you leave Toronto you clear US customs before you go through security to board your plane?  Can we do this from let's say, hum, London?  Nope!